Emmy Award-Winning Writer & Co-Anchor, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update"
Colin Jost: Biography at a Glance
- Colin Jost is a writer on Saturday Night Live, television's longest-running and most successful sketch and comedy show.
- He also co-anchors the "Weekend Update" sketch on Saturday Night Live, a satirical news program that comments on and parodies current events.
- Jost has won five Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards, and has been nominated for 19 Emmy Awards for his writing on SNL, most recently winning an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for SNL50: The Anniversary Special.
- He has performed stand-up on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show, and the Just for Laughs Comedy Festivals in Montreal and Chicago.
- Jost released his NYT bestselling memoir, A Very Punchable Face, which features a series of essays documenting pivotal moments in Jost’s life, including growing up in Staten Island in a family of firefighters, commuting three hours a day to high school, attending Harvard while Facebook was created, and more.
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Colin Jost is a writer at Saturday Night Live, television's longest-running and most successful sketch and comedy show, now heading into its 49th season. Jost joined the show as a writer in 2005 and became a co-head writer in 2012. Jost has co-anchored “Weekend Update” alongside fellow cast member Michael Che since 2014.
Jost has won five Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody Awards, and has been nominated for 14 Emmy Awards for his writing on SNL. Jost and Che hosted special editions of “Weekend Update” on MSNBC during the 2016 Republican and Democratic national conventions as well as the primetime “Weekend Update Summer Edition” in 2017. In 2018, they co-hosted the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Jost wrote Staten Island Summer, a coming-of-age comedy released by Paramount Pictures and produced by Lorne Michaels. He had a supporting role in the Warner Bros. film, How to Be Single. Jost can be seen in the Paramount Pictures film, Coming 2 America, and also stars in the Warner Bros. live-action animation film, Tom and Jerry.
As a writer, Jost has been published multiple times in The New Yorker and has contributed to The New York Times Magazine and the Huffington Post, amongst others.
Jost debuted his New York Times bestselling memoir, A Very Punchable Face, which is a series of essays documenting pivotal moments in Jost’s life including growing up in Staten Island in a family of firefighters, commuting three hours a day to high school, attending Harvard while Facebook was created, and more.
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